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The net charge on an ion is equal to the
number
of protons in the ion minus the
number
of electrons.
The
number
of epinephrine molecules in here is one quintillion.
That
number
is hard to visualize.
We give them each a name and a
number.
Carbon is life's favorite structural building material, because it makes a good
number
of handshakes with just the right grip strength.
All right, a political scientist, it doesn't really count, but my laboratory was the laboratory of democracy that is Michigan, and, like any good scientist, I was experimenting with policy about what would achieve the greatest good for the greatest
number.
Enigma
number
one: How do you create jobs in America in a global economy?
Number
two, very quickly: How do you solve global climate change when we don't even have a national energy policy in this country and when gridlock in Congress seems to be the norm?
In fact, there was a poll that was done recently and the pollster compared Congress's approval ratings to a
number
of other unpleasant things, and it was found, in fact, that Congress's approval rating is worse than cockroaches, lice, Nickelback the band, root canals and Donald Trump.
But many years ago, we took the worst land in Zimbabwe, where I offered a £5 note in a hundred-mile drive if somebody could find one grass in a hundred-mile drive, and on that, we trebled the stocking rate, the
number
of animals, in the first year with no feeding, just by the movement, mimicking nature, and using a sigmoid curve, that principle.
If we have any doubts about the effects of this separate rule book, this statistic is sobering: From 1970 to 2009, the
number
of nonprofits that really grew, that crossed the $50 million annual revenue barrier, is 144.
In the same time, the
number
of for-profits that crossed it is 46,136.
Dopamine plays a
number
of important functions in the brain, including in attention, arousal, reward, and disorders of the dopamine system have been linked to a
number
of mental disorders including drug abuse, Parkinson's disease, and ADHD.
Have you read anything anywhere in the last week that is remotely as important as that
number?
The
number
of people living in back-breaking, soul-crushing extreme poverty has declined from 43 percent of the world's population in 1990 to 33 percent by 2000 and then to 21 percent by 2010.
There's actually only about 20 people on each page, because we have the name, address and telephone
number
of every single person.
But, of course, you couldn't do it, because we don't know the names of all the people with Internet or email addresses, and even if we did know their names, I'm pretty sure that they would not want their name, address and telephone
number
published to everyone.
There are quite a
number
of success stories one can point to about how this has led to major advances.
Everyone chooses a
number
from zero to 100, we're going to compute the average of those numbers, and whoever's closest to two-thirds of the average wins a fixed prize.
So you want to be a little bit below the average number, but not too far below, and everyone else wants to be a little bit below the average
number
as well.
Because picking a
number
that low is actually a bad choice if other people aren't doing equilibrium analysis as well.
And the way they bargain is to point on a
number
line that goes from zero to six dollars, and they're bargaining over how much the uninformed player gets, and the informed player's going to get the rest.
What we can say,
number
one, as the Supreme Court said in Citizens United, that people have the ultimate influence over elected officials, because, after all, there is a general election, but only after the Lesters have had their way with the candidates who wish to run in the general election.
And
number
two, obviously, this dependence upon the Lesters is going to produce a subtle, understated, we could say camouflaged, bending to keep the Lesters happy.
Number
one, the United States is Lesterland.
And
number
two, obviously, this dependence upon the funders produces a subtle, understated, camouflaged bending to keep the funders happy.
Okay, the United States is Lesterland, point
number
one.
Here's point
number
two.
And finally, point
number
three: Whatever one wants to say about Lesterland, against the background of its history, its traditions, in our land, in USA-land, Lesterland is a corruption, a corruption.
It's a pathological, democracy-destroying corruption, because in any system where the members are dependent upon the tiniest fraction of us for their election, that means the tiniest
number
of us, the tiniest, tiniest
number
of us, can block reform.
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